Can the FAT32 partition actually be used for /home? and if so, would installing a new distro reformat that partition as part of the install process? Would my data be safe?
On 3/22/07,
Kris Douglas <webbox.uk@gmail.com> wrote:
True...but i tend to do so as i find it a more secure method.....if anything goes wrong...
On 22/03/07, Matthew Wellings <Matt@openforeveryone.co.uk
> wrote:
You don't have to have your '/home' as a separate partition. This may well
prove far more flexable for you.
Matt
On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:17, Kris Douglas wrote:
> You can get distributions that calculate all the partitions for you.
> Distributions like SuSE and Fedora both do that, as does Ubuntu/ Kubuntu...
> But the current layout seems good, but only for a fairly small
> distribution...because my main linux distro now has over 10gigs of things
> in the / partition....
>
> It entirely depends on how you want to use your machine, and what for...
>
> On 22/03/07, Carl Struyk <carl@struyk.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi guys - I have a 40GB HDD on my HP TC1100 slate PC and wanted to
> > install Linux as as I'm sick of fiddling with Live CD's - I flit between
> > 10 of them and never stick any of them out.
> > I need to leave 15GB for Windows and wanted to divvy up the remaining
> > 25GB. I have 512MB RAM so the swap is going to be 1024MB
> >
> > Would I be OK doing 15GB for the FAT32 shared partition, 1GB for swap,
> > 4GB for /, 5GB for /home.
> >
> > I intend to put Gentoo on there to use and understand the (in) famous
> > package manager which I've heard is top class.
> >
> > Carl
> >
> > On 3/22/07, Dick Turpin <
highwayman.turpin@gmail.com
> wrote:
> > > On 22/03/07, Alan Pope <alan@popey.com> wrote:
> > > > You can joke... I had to for a kernel bug that wasn't logged
> > >
> > > anywhere.. and
> > >
> > > > another issue with my dell laptop where the screen corrupted due to
> > >
> > > hardware
> > >
> > > > failure..
> > > >
> > > > http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/kernelbug
> > > >
http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/DellInspironXPSGen2Problem
> > >
> > > Been there got the tee shirt, my favorite though (Done it here loads
> > > of times) is having to use Linux to fix/access a Windows box
> > >
> > > Now that is funny
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dick Turpin
> > > "At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"
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